The Onion Girl by Charles De Lint
Newford: where magic lights dark streets, where myths walk in modern shapes, where humans and older beings must work to keep the whole world turning. At the centre of the entwined lives of all the Newford tales stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in Newford's shadows. With her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips, she's darted in and out of the Newford tales. Now, at last, we have Jilly's own story. Behind the painter's fey charm there's a dark secret, and a past she's laboured to forget. That past is coming to claim her now, threatening all she loves. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's run from the past and the truth for so long. She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.
Musician and writer Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands, but emigrated to Canada at the age of four. The most significant and prolific writer of fantasy in Canada, he is best-known for his urban fantasies set in Newford, an alternative reality Ottawa. He lives with his artist and musician wife MaryAnn in the real Ottawa, Ontario.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780575073975 |
| ISBN 10 | 0575073977 |
| Title | The Onion Girl |
| Author | Charles De Lint |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2004-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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